The Mighty Musicianship Of Leo Blanco
What makes the art of South America so alluring? It has existed, and more importantly, it has been developing in a steaming cauldron, cooking...
Festival International Nuits d’Afrique – 30th Anniversary – A Celebration In Style
30 years ago, in 1987, Lamine Touré had a dream. He turned his dream into reality when Nuits d'Afrique was born.
It all started in...
Anat Cohen: Música da Paz e Alegria
Anat Cohen Presents Two New Albums: "Rosa Dos Ventos" and "Outra Coisa" (The Music of Moacir Santos)
Montanha, Cristiano Alves, Nailor Proveta, Buosi and Burgani;...
Joanna Wallfisch: Journey Of The Heart
North American listeners have been introduced to the music of the British-born multi-instrumentalist, writer and vocalist, Joanna Wallfisch. She has regaled her audiences from...
Barbara Hannigan: An Evening with the Empress of Song
Two years ago I saw Barbara Hannigan perform György Ligeti’s Mystères du Macabre dressed in a schoolgirl’s kilt, chewing bubblegum. The orchestra was Sinfónica...
With Love From Africa: 31st Festival International Nuits d’Afrique, 2017
“Aimez-moi comme un beau rêve,
votre vie la nuit,
mon espoir le jour,
comme une pièce d’argent
sur terre ne m’en sépare,
et pour le grand voyage
fidèle compagne;
comme la...
Mario Adnet & Paulo Jobim Present Jobim at 90 With: Jobim – Orchestra &...
There can be no doubt that Antonio Carlos Jobim is one of the most important cultural figures in Brasil, an icon even among other...
Tcha Limberger: From Bruges and Foix to the World
It is important to acknowledge the genius of Tcha Limberger in the context of his being a musical – perhaps, an all-around – polymath...
Benjamin Zander: Light of The Ninth
"Don't only practice your art,
But force your way into its secrets
For it and knowledge can
raise men to The Divine."
Ludwig van Beethoven
The Journey of the...
Cecilia Pahl: Interior y Litorâneo
The Puerto Rico-born Cecilia Pahl, who moved to Posadas, Misiones in Argentina, via Cordoba, Spain is now not only a seasoned traveller, but a...
The Toronto Sound: David Buchbinder’s Odessa/Havana
April 7, 2018 - Koerner Hall, The Royal Conservatory - Toronto
When you have Maestro Hilario Durán involved in a project you can be assured...
Lenka Lichtenberg: Masaryk
The tumultuous and traumatic history of both the Jewish Diaspora and the history of the Czech Republic have always come together in the profoundly...
Simon Thacker’s Svara-Kanti: Trikala
With this epic double disc, Trikala Simon Thacker has elevated his musicianship into a rarefied realm. He is alone among guitarists who have been...
Paula Jeanine Bennett: In Whom The Heart Is Free To Roam
Conventional science maintains that the Human Body comprises 60% water with 73% of the brain and heart alone being water. Certainly not the artist,...
The Loneliness of the Indigenous Musician
The Canadian calendar – just like those in the US and Europe and like the Holy Roman Empire – is full of holidays celebrating...
Damien Sneed and the Toronto Mass Choir: “We Shall Overcome” A Celebration of Dr....
"We have come a long, long way but we still have a long, long way to go."
(Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.)
For two hours...
Eve A Ma: Afro-Peruvian Rhythms Beckon
If you are an ethnomusicologist on a quest to study a particular style of music you deep-dive. But every deep-dive demands that you must...
Marcelo Woloski: Mundo Por Conocer
In a world where many drummers and percussionists – indeed many musicians – are scrambling to catch up with the complex of rhythmic intonations,...
Bengt Berger: The Wide World of Beches Indian Brew
Don Cherry was, arguably, the first musician to use the term “world-music” to describe the music he was playing in the 1960’s. By that...
Putumayo Presents: A World in Music
Putumayo World Music is a New York-based label that has few peers anywhere in the world of music. It single-handedly introduces listeners to music...
